Paper roll holder



1949. M. F. CAMPBELL 2,477,961

' PAPER ROLL HOLDER Filed March 9, 1946 INVENTOR.

U Q M6 Patented Aug; 2, l949 PAPER ROLL HOLDER Melville F. Campbell,Springfield, Mass. Application March 9, 1946, Serial No. 653,369

1 Claim. 1

made from a single length of material so as to be economical tomanufacture and which is constructed and arranged to support a roll forrotation on a horizontal axis spaced from and in parallelism with avertical wall.

According to special features of the invention,

' the holder is constructed and arranged without relatively movableparts so that a roll may be slipped thereonto and the hollow coreremoved therefrom yet while a roll is in rotative position on the holderit is prevented from displacement therefrom and is frictionally heldagainst rotation so as to prevent waste of the paper of the roll.

With the foregoing and various other novel features and advantages andother objects of my invention as will become more apparent as thedescription proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel featuresof construction and in the combination and arrangement of parts as willbe hereinafter more particularly pointed out in the claims hereuntoannexed and more fully described and referred to in connection with theaccompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. l is a front elevational view of a holder embodying the novelfeatures of the invention and having a roll of paper associatedtherewith;

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view of the holder shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a small scale plan view of the holder shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring now to the drawings more in detail,

the invention will be fully described.

The holder of the invention is made from a single length of materialsuch as wire and is bent or formed by a bending or forming machine tohave the related elements to be described.

A rear horizontal wall member 2 for engaging V a vertical wall has itsinner end formed to provide upper and lower loops or eyes 4 and 6connected by a portion 5.

Screws such as I0 may be passed through the eyes 4 and 6 into a verticalwall such as I2 whereby the holder is rigidly secured to said Wall.

From the outer end of the member 2 there extends at right anglesrelative thereto and in a horizontal plane a spacer member I4.

A roll supporting member I6 extends from the outer end of the member I4which is in the same 66 porting member terminating in a loop,

2 horizontal plane as the members 2 and I4 and is spaced from and inparallelism with said member 2.

The extremity of the member I6 is bent to form a loop I8 which isdisposed above the plane of the roll supporting member I6.

Said loop preferably has a vertically disposed member 20 for engagingone end of a roll of paper, a horizontal member 22, an outer verticalmember 24 and a terminal member 26.

A roll of paper is represented by 28 from which the web of paper 30depends and it has the usual hollow core 32.

The vertical dimension of the loop I8 is such that the core 32 of thepaper roll may be passed thereover and onto the roll supporting memberI6.

The roll 28 is rotatable on the member IE but is held from displacementtherefrom by the loop I8 which is disposed upwardly from said member I6.

The member IE may be of any desired length to accommodate rolls ofvarious widths. However, the distance between the spacer member I4 andthe vertical member 20 will be such that opposite ends of the roll arefrictionally engaged thereby to prevent spinning of the roll as the webis being unwound for tearing off sections thereof.

The roll is supported for rotation on a horizontal axis which isparallel to the wall so as to occupy a minimum of space and while theroll may be rotated by pulling on the web it is frictionally held by themembers I4 and 28.

The roll is easily and readily placed on the holder by passing the coreover the loop by which it is held in relative position.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departingfrom the essential characteristics thereof. Hence, the presentembodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects merely asbeing illustrative and not as being restrictive, the scope of theinvention being indicated by the appended claim rather than by theforegoing description, and all modifications and variations as fallwithin the meaning and purview and range of equivalency of the appendedclaim are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

being disposed upwardly from the-planer-ofsaid 10 roll supportingmember; and said spacer member and said loop being spaced apart toreceive therebetween a roll of paper on said roll supporting member andadapted to frictionally engagetherebetween opposite ends of the roll.

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REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,070,641 Walker Aug. 19, 19131,292,640 Phelps Jan, 28, 1919 1,559,663 Baldwin Nov; 3, 1925 2,240,629Smith May 6, 1941

